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Gerhard Dorn and John French

A Chymical Dictionary

An Expanded Diotimos Lexicon of Paracelsian and Alchemical Language

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Baul

Body disease and historical medicine · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A historical name identifying urine.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 10; facsimile PDF page 338.

Historical Definition

Baul is urine.

Meaning

The equation is straightforward and should remain so. Its chief editorial value is to make an unfamiliar name recognizable in a passage about bodily materials. The entry says nothing about the person or animal producing it, its condition, or whether it has been further treated. Those details should be taken from the particular passage rather than added to the headword.

Compare Anodus for an account of what the kidneys separate from nourishment. The relation is bodily and thematic; it does not make every separated substance identical with Baul.

Places to Read

Anodus. A bodily product defined through renal separation.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 10; facsimile PDF page 338 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Baul ; compare Anodus

See also. Anodus

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About This Reading Edition

The complete 706 historical definitions of the 1650 English dictionary, modernised and accompanied by expanded Diotimos commentary, reading routes, 15 textual notes and complete linked indexes.

Historical Text

A Chymicall Dictionary, London 1650, English version associated with John French, based on Gerhard Dorn’s Dictionarium Theophrasti Paracelsi. The containing volume also prints Sendivogius and Paracelsus; neither neighboring work changes this dictionary’s attribution.

About This Edition

Complete 706 definition paragraphs with new introduction, commentary, reading guides and indexes; Diotimos Editions, 2026.

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The historical 1650 English text is in the public domain. New introduction, commentary, reading guides and indexes are © 2026 Diotimos Editions and published with the site owner’s authorization.